I’ve just started a series of interviews with senior leaders exploring love in their leadership. One of the questions I ask is a version of ‘what has shaped you to enable you to talk about love in relation to your leadership’. Or sometimes ‘how did…
‘You can’t be a hurried person and be a loving person’. Perhaps you might find that a bit too definite for your liking. Rather too black and white. But when I first heard someone say it, a large part of me stood to attention because…
A week or so ago, I met with 30 OD practitioners from the private and public sectors for a workshop to explore the links between OD and Love. It was a rich day of exploration and this (rather long) post shares some of what we…
On 4 November, I’m running a workshop exploring the relationship between Organisational Development (OD) and Love. I’m part of the Faculty of Roffey Park’s MSc in People and Organisational Development and I also work regularly with OD practitioners supporting them in developing their practice. So…
It feels like the right time to be developing and expanding our understanding of love. If it’s the strong medicine that’s needed for tough times (and I think it is) and if we need a revolution based on love (I think we do) then we…
Last year, I started exploring love in relation to our organisations and their leadership. I want to know what might help to make our organisational cultures less damaging and more (re)generative. Less fearful, more hopeful. I started with a piece of research, asking questions like…
Funny what the world offers you. Currently, it’s the chance to look at what ‘radical’ means to me. First, exploring love and what relationship it has to leadership and the role it could/should play in our organisations, I wrote this piece a week or so…
Two stories. I was running a session as part of leadership programme for high potential leaders in a global organisation. We’d got to the bit where we use FIRO-B, a psychometric tool that explores our relationship with our need for control, for closeness in our relationships and…
75 responses. Some fascinating data. Raising some big questions. And so, coming up, a job I’m looking forward to… writing up my research from the Leadership and Love survey which has just closed. I’ll post about some of the findings here and, in the meantime,…
